Guill v. M. Squared Transportation, Inc.

Claimant petitions for review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board in which the board, over a dissent by one member, upheld employer’s denial of his claim for workers’ compensation benefits. Claimant, a truck driver, suffered a syncopal episode, that is, a loss of consciousness,1 while driving his truck. Claimant’s truck crashed and, although claimant was not injured in the crash, employer required him to seek medical services for the purpose of diagnosing the cause of claimant’s fainting episode. Claimant requested workers’ compensation benefits for those diagnostic medical…